invaders. (Andriy Vodopyan, Crime in Staline, in The Black Deeds of the

Kremlin: A White Book, Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian Communist

Terror, Toronto, 1953, p. 121)

Yuriy Dniprovy

INNOCENT VICTIMS

In the little town of Zolotnyky in the Ternopil region the bolsheviks

murdered a captain of the former Ukrainian Galician Army (UHA) of 1918-1922,

Mr. Dankiw, and clerks of the Ukrainian cooperative store, the sisters

Magdalene, Sophia and Clementine Husar from the suburb of Vaha. Clementine and

Magdalene were tortured in a beastly manner and had their breats cut off.

Other people executed at that time were: Slavko Demyd, Yosyp Vozny, Vasyl

Burbela, Zynoviy Kushniryna, Pavlo Kushniryna and a non-commissioned officer of

the UHA, Mr. Tsiholsky. (Yuriy Dniprovy, Innocent Victims, in The Black Deeds

of the Kremlin: A White Book, Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian

Communist Terror, Toronto, 1953, p. 122)

P. K.

THE INFERNAL DEVICE OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS

(By an eyewitness) In the year 1942, when the Red Army, harassed by the

German divisions, retreated from Katerynodar (Krasnodar), the regional NKVD

division evacuated all the prisoners and sent them in the direction of

Novorossiysk. The railway line between Katerynodar and the station of Krymska

was jammed by nearly two hundred freight boxcars filled to capacity with

political prisoners.

Suspecting that all these prisoners might fall into German hands the

Russian NKVD men, as a precautionary measure, poured gasoline on the cars and

let them burn.

Thus a few thousand people perished in inhuman torture merely because they

were suspected of anti-communism.

When the Germans entered Katerynodar they found in the regional divisional

building of the NKVD in Sinny Bazar, a horrible torture chamber. In the vault

of this building there was a dark passage which ended with a wooden platform

which dipped down at a sharp angle. Right underneath it there was a machine

which resembled a straw chopper. It was a disk equipped with a system of big

knives that revolved at great speed. It was powered by a motor.

After questioning, the innocent victims were driven by the NKVD agents

towards the wooden platform and rolled under the knives of the hellish

meatchopper. The chopped bones and flesh of the victims fell into the sewers

and were carried away with a stream of sewage into the river Kuban.

Having discovered this horrible place, the Germans gave permission to all

who wished to view this inhuman device. Thousands of people visited the place,

among them the author of these lines.

Other nations direct their talents towards the discovery of better

medicines, new materials, better means of communication to make living

conditions better. The Russian people are using all their talents for the

production of machines and new methods of mass murder and torture. (P. K., The

infernal device of the Russian Communists (by an eyewitness), in The Black

Deeds of the Kremlin: A White Book, Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian

Communist Terror, Toronto, 1953, pp. 123-124)

M. Kowal

BOLSHEVIK MURDERS

I am Michael Kowal, from the town of Kaminka Strumylova in the Lviw Region

in Ukraine. During the communist occupation of Western Ukraine I personally

witnessed three arrests in my native town on June 22, 1941, those of Bohdan

Mulkevich, and Michael Mulkevich who lived on Zamok Street, and Michael

Mulkevich's blacksmith apprentice, presumably from the village of Rymaniw in

the same Region. They were suspected of disloyalty to the communist regime.

After th communist retreat from Kaminska-Strumylova they were found in the

town prison with 33 other victims, murdered in a horribly sadistic manner. All

the corpses were tied together with barbed wire and all bore signs of terrible

beatings. Some had nails driven into their skulls. None of them had been shot